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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

UK house prices grow at fastest rate for 17 years

a for sale sign in a UK street
Thr average UK house price now stands at £265,312 Photograph: Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

UK house prices grew in March at the fastest rate since 2004, continuing the ascent to new record levels – with the price of an average home now a fifth higher than at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Prices rose by 14.3% in the year to March, the strongest pace of increase since November 2004, when the UK experienced a housing boom that preceded the financial crisis, according to Nationwide, the UK’s largest building society.

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